> imagine the quantity of drugs that could exist if something like this could be bootstrapped.
That's an incredibly optimistic assumption. My mind instead immediately goes to imaging the kind of horrors people would go through if it were easier to put drugs onto the market than it already is.
We already live through people dying or developing lifelong disabilities due to medication going onto market with side effects that were not properly understood. If the barrier was lower this problem would only be worse.
And this is exactly the problem. People see the horrors of bad drugs. No one sees or cares about the people who die and suffer from drugs that weren't developed.
That's an incredibly optimistic assumption. My mind instead immediately goes to imaging the kind of horrors people would go through if it were easier to put drugs onto the market than it already is.
We already live through people dying or developing lifelong disabilities due to medication going onto market with side effects that were not properly understood. If the barrier was lower this problem would only be worse.